BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2018 in JAPAN performances will begin at Makuhari Messe starting October 23rd and will be ending at Kobe World Memorial Hall on the 31st. And just days before the start of these performances, BABYMETAL digitally released their new song “Starlight” while also unveiling the music video on October 19th (JST). A portion of this new song “Starlight” is included in BABYMETAL’s graphic novel Apocrypha: The Legend of BABYMETAL ‘s trailer.

The start of the BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2018 in JAPAN performances will mark the rebirth of BABYMETAL in which SU-METAL and MOAMETAL form the core.

According to BABYMETAL’s official website, since last December in Hiroshima, YUIMETAL had been absent from performing and during this time both SU-METAL and MOAMETAL as well as the entire staff team had been preparing for her awaited return. However, YUIMETAL came to a decision that she will not be performing at October’s Japan performances and that she will no longer be a part of BABYMETAL.

BABYMETAL will also be having a festival type event BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2018 in JAPAN EXTRA SHOW “DARK NIGHT CARNIVAL” with special guests on October 28th which will be held at Saitama Super Arena. This will be BABYMETAL’s first time to be hosting such an event and will be a special night to remember for all attendees.

BABYMETAL have released a new live footage of “Distortion”, filmed at the Download Festival 2018 in UK this June, watch it here:

Coinciding with the live video footage, BABYMETAL confirm the worldwide release of the limited coloured 12” vinyl single of “Distortion” on November 23rd via selected indie retailers. Besides the studio recording, the exclusive red vinyl single also includes the previously unreleased, very special live version of “Distortion”, recorded live at Download Festival, UK on June 9th.

As BABYMETAL is now preparing for their headline show at Makuhari Messe and Kobe World Hall, which will be held in Japan as part of their word tour, they have also confirmed their first festival type music event <BABYMETAL WOLD TOUR 2018 in JAPAN EXTRA SHOW “DARK NIGHT CARNIVAL”>, inviting SABATON and GALACTIC EMPIRE at Saitama Super Arena on October 28th. This event is associated with autumn festivals such as Halloween and Day Of The Dead.

BABYMETAL will appear as special guests to METALLICA at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, Korea on January 11th 2017 as part of their WORLDWIRED world tour, reported earMUSIC.

Currently being rapturously received by UK audiences on RED HOT CHILIPEPPERS mammoth arena tour of the UK, the news further cements what looks to be an incredible start to 2017 for BABYMETAL, which also includes supporting GUNS N’ ROSES in Japan in January.

SU-METAL
“We’ve looked up to Metallica for so long and to be able to join them on their tour is a dream come true. It will be our first performance for 2017 so we are really looking forward to receiving a lot of good energy from them to kick off the new year!!”

YUIMETAL
“I am just so thrilled at the amazing recent news of being able to join such big bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Guns N’ Roses, and now Metallica!! I just can’t keep up! Metallica is such an important part of what BABYMETAL does. I feel that we were able to make it this far all thanks to Metallica-san! It’s still so unbelievable to be able to play with them and I’m incredibly happy! Very excited for 2017!”

MOAMETAL
“It is such an honor to be able to join the Metal Master Metallica on their tour! We’ve been blessed to be able to join many different artists up to this point and we are very excited to see what we can learn next from Metallica. I hope we are able to absorb as much as possible from our Metal Master! Looking forward to learning new and unimaginable things from them!!”

The announcement comes ahead of the release of their ‘Live At Wembley’ album, which is released this Friday 9th December via earMUSIC, and marks great piece of news in what has been a massively successful year for the band.

Having released their second studio album ‘Metal Resistance’ on April 1st, BABYMETAL made history by earning the highest UK chart position ever achieved by a Japanese band, with the album reaching number 15 in the UK album charts. On the other side of the Atlantic, ‘Metal Resistance’ boasted the honour of being the first album from a Japanese artist to hit the Billboard Charts in 53 years. The following day on April 2nd, BABYMETAL made history again, not only by becoming the first Japanese band to ever headline at the prestigious Wembley Arena, but also breaking the all time merchandising record in the history of the venue.

Summer saw them perform at the main stage of Download festival in June – but not before scooping a Kerrang! Award for BEST LIVE BAND, with July seeing the girls pair up with metal god and JUDAS PRIEST frontman ROB HALFORD at the Alternative Press Magazine Awards for a once in a lifetime live collaboration.

September brought another UK award for BEST LIVE ACT, this time courtesy of the Association Of Independent Music, just a couple of weeks before their biggest headline shows to date; BABYMETAL attracted 110,000 people over two nights at the huge TOKYO DOME in Japan.

BABYMETAL recently announced the release of a new ‘Live At Wembley’ album (December 9th via earMUSIC). With a carefully selected tracklisting, the CD captures the spectacular performance recorded at BABYMETAL’s first ever UK Arena show, ‘BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2016 kicks off at THE SSE ARENA, WEMBLEY’. The KKKK rated album was described by Kerrang! Magazine, who last week gave the band their first Kerrang! cover, “proof of what a devastating live force they are”

Preorders of ‘Live At Wembley’ – released digitally on December 30th – are available on iTunes at the following link: smarturl.it/BMWembley_iTunes

Metal dance phenomenon BABYMETAL have announced the release of a new 13 track live album “Live At Wembley” on December 9th via earMUSIC/Edel. With a carefully selected tracklisting, the CD captures the spectacular performance recorded at BABYMETAL’s first ever UK Arena show, “BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2016 kicks off at THE SSE ARENA, WEMBLEY”, which took place in London on April 2nd. The show saw BABYMETAL become the first Japanese artist in history to perform a headline show at THE SSE ARENA, WEMBLEY. This headline show garnered an attendance of 12,000 people, where BABYMETAL also broke the merchandise sales record of the venue, creating history once again. A digital version will be released December 30th.

BABYMETAL’s second album “METAL RESISTANCE” was released simultaneously worldwide on April 1, 2016 and ranked in at No.15 on the UK Official Album Chart, which is the highest rank acquired by a Japanese artist to date. The album also charted at No.39 on the US Billboard chart making BABYMETAL the first Japanese artist in 53 years to have made the charts and second in the history of Japanese artists.

The summer’s most anticipated metal mash up performance, reports Bravewords.com – featuring pop metal icons BABYMETAL and JUDAS PRIEST‘s legendary vocalist Rob Halford – took place last night at the third annual Journey’s Alternative Press Music Awards, Fueled by Monster Energy. The performance, which featured Babymetal’s Su-Metal and Halford’s dueling vocals on Judas Priest classics “Painkiller” and “Breaking The Law”, saw the meeting of the “Fox God” and the “Metal God”.

Watch the video footage HERE, and check out exclusive quotes from Babymetal and Rob Halford at RollingStone.com.

Singer David Reece (Bonfire former Accept) joins Jimmy Kay on Canada’s The Metal Voice to Review Babymetal’s new album Metal Resistance as well as debate if Babymetal is helping or hurting the metal community.

Reece had this to say about their new album, “I will say the guitars are brutal in places, I don’t know who is actually playing them but there are some cool riffs and cool tones. The drum programming is from another planet, whoever he is, he’s got fingers like lightning bolts but some cool programs and the mix is ok.”

Reece went on,“The vocals reminded me when I was a young lad and my mother would hand me Alvin and the Chipmunks records for Christmas, that high squeaky voice I thought was cool when I was 5 years old. Maybe that’s why they call it Babymetal. I don’t know but after listening to the album throughout the day and giving it my honest ears and try to be optimistic and open-minded. I felt like shoving a dagger into my eyeball. Maybe this will appeal to the mass majority crowd of Metalheads somewhere in the universe that like to look at Japanese women in French maid outfits or whatever it is they are wearing and working in synchronization on stage. But I call this a fad and a gimmick like the grunge movement and like grunge I hope and pray this movement eats its young and it ends sooner than later.”

For fans of melodic hard rock, the name David Reece will be a familiar one. Since bursting onto the scene as the then new front man for German legends Accept, David has released no less than 15 full-length recordings and appeared on numerous more. His diverse catalog encompasses his early 90’s success with Bangalore Choir known for their MTV hit “Loaded Gun”, the powerful modern metal project Sircle Of Silence, numerous solo releases and most recently David has been fronting another legendary German act… Bonfire.

Well known for his powerful voice and dynamic stage performances, this new project has the same brand of musical quality stamped all over it.

David Reece has joined forces with Mario Percudani in exciting new hard rock project called R.P.G.